Oral history prashant

I learned a lot about the people in the great depression. People had to do things which they thought was wrong and disgracefull like Bernice who was a party hostess. She said, "When I first came to New York from Bermuda I thought rent-parties were disgraceful. I couldn't understand how any self-respecting person could bear them, but when my husband, who was a pullman porter, ran off and left me with a sixty-dollar-a-month apartment on my hands and no job."(Bernice) People in the depression did not want to do the things they did and especially did not want their kids to do the jobs they had to do now. for, example, Mr.Garavelli was a stone cutter. His job was dangerous from the silica that the cutters inhaled and they died. He said that he did not want his kids doing what he did."You bet your life my kid don't go to work in no stoneshed." i also learned about segregation in the depression. There was a man who sold fish and he would sing. He had to keep happy during hard times. He was called Kingfish.



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2. What is his title or position? Mister
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